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Lee Gak-jong (23 April 1888 – 12 June 1968)was a bureaucrat during the Japanese occupation, his hometown was Sujeong, Daegu-bu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and he was from Daegu.

Life
He graduated from the government-public Hansung High School in 1904 and Boseong Technical School in 1908. In 1909, he was appointed as an undergraduate member of the Korean Empire and entered the department of literature at Waseda University in Japan as a suburban student. From 1911 to 1917, he served as a member of the Department of Academic Affairs of the Governor-General of Joseon, and from 1912 to 1915, he served as a law instructor at Boseong Technical School. He was appointed as the head of Gimpo-gun, Gyeonggi-do in 1917, and decided to devote the rest of his life to prevent it after judging that ugly struggles and useless sacrifices such as hurrah protests should not be repeated during the March 1 Independence Movement.

He resigned from his post in June 1920 due to illness. After recovering from his illness in 1921, he was appointed as a commissioned officer of the Second Division of the Interior Bureau of the Governor-General of Joseon. From 1922 to 1930, he led the Hwang Min-hwa movement by giving lectures and publishing articles while acting as a commissioned member of the Social Affairs Department of the Interior Bureau of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon. In 1912, he received a commemorative letter for the annexation of Korea from the Japanese government and a memorial letter for Showa Daerye in 1928, and in 1937, when he was commissioned by the Hakmu Bureau of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, he made a text of Hwangguk Sinminseo.

From June 1925 to the early 1930s, he was the publisher and editor of the magazine "New People". In February 1936, the Baegakhwe, an organization for the people of the Imperial Kingdom formed by conversionists, was organized, and in July of the same year, the Daedong People's Association, an organization that expanded and reorganized the Baegakhwe. From 1937 to 1939, he simultaneously served as a social education supervisor of the Office of Education of the Joseon Governor-General and a conscripted probation officer at Gyeongseong Probation Office, and from 1937, he actively insisted on the mobilization of the people's spirit and extension.

In 1938, he served as a member of the Gyeonggi-do Joint Branch of the Korean Air Defense Association and a director of the National Spirit Mobilization Joseon Federation. In 1939, he served as executive director, promoter, and disaster of the National Spirit Mobilization Chosun Federation, advisor to the Daedongiljinhoe in 1940, disaster of the National Spirit Mobilization Chosun Federation, and councilor. On August 25, 1941, he published an article on the theme of "Hwangdo Spirit and All-out," and on September 7 of the same year, he served as a member of the Namdaemun member of the Bonded Gabon Technical University. In October 1941, he served as the promoter and councilor of the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation, and in November of the same year, he was appointed as the chairman of the Daedong People's Association.

In 1942, he served as a member of the Defense Leadership of the National Federation of Korea, a member of the Ritual Improvement Investigation Committee, and a member of the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Federation of Korea in 1943. In 1949, after the end of the Pacific War, he was arrested by the Anti-People's Special Committee in Seoul under the Anti-National Act. However, he was released after it was judged that he was mentally ill due to the shock after Japan's defeat during the trial.

Other sections of the 708-member pro-Japanese group list announced by the National Spirit-building Assembly in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographies compiled by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008. In 2005, the list of 10 members of the Korea University's school organization, the Japanese Residual Residualization Committee, announced the "first person of the Japanese Residual in 100 years of Korea University, It is also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Anti-ethnic Acts in 2009.

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